Today is the day after the elections. Chaos is an understatement for what is happening nationwise. In a country where voting is done mainly through electronic means results are not that easily collected.
Or they are collected but not just released! Maybe the results are being massaged to the satisfactions of the powers up there. The United States is great and very quick to criticize other countries for their less than fair election methods and corruption, but they do not want to admit that they are not holier than thou either.
Two years ago, at the presidential election the results were finagled for the satisfaction of the republicans. At this they are again being "adjusted" to a so far unnamed party. How come that almost 24 hours after the polls closed, they still don't know the results? In a third world, jungle country by this time they already have results but in this land of fair practice the results are still not known. Or are they?
All last night we were watching the results and found it interesting that the results kept coming in pretty quickly until they reached a point when the final control of Congress was to be show. At that point all stopped. Come on! Don't try to make me believe that this stoppage not the result of some maneuvering.
Free elections we do have. We are free to go to the polling place and cast our votes. But results are a different thing. Maybe this is the new American way!
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